Campbell’s How many colours has the sea is a room-sized installation at the Power Plant Gallery at Harbourfront, while Turner’s show Otherworld is at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Both Charles Campbell and Camille Turner have been thinking about their ancestors. Jamaican-born visual artists working in Canada – he’s in Victoria; she is a Torontonian now living in L.A. – they are descendants of enslaved Africans. Coincidentally, they are both showing work in Toronto that evokes ancestors and contemporary Black experience.is a room-sized installation at the Power Plant Gallery at Harbourfront.
One of the things that came up for me was the people who didn’t make it over, the thought of tormented souls that needed some kind of respite. Estimates are around 20 per cent, so the order of two million people. And that’s lost in the journey. There were even more lost in the transport across the African continent to the slave ports.
Camille, you’ve chosen to focus on one particular aspect – the slave ships that were built in Newfoundland. Where did that idea start? A year later, it was artist Bushra Junaid, who’s a Newfoundlander of Jamaican and Nigerian descent, who shared her research that made me aware that there were slave ships that were built in Newfoundland. Then I was invited by the Bonavista Biennale and that’s when I started focusing on these slave ships.Building the ships means you’re complicit, obviously, but it’s on a different scale than enslaving people or running an economy based on slavery.
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